Weather, climate, culture /
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2003. |
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| Description: | xviii, 307 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5082351 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- 1. Up in the Air: The Anthropology of Weather and Climate
- Days
- 2. Time, Talk, and the Weather in Eighteenth-Century Britain
- 3. Weather Wise: Speaking Folklore to Science in Leukerbad
- 4. Chesapeake Bay Watermen, Weather, and Blue Crabs: Cultural Models and Fishery Policies
- 5. (En)Gendering the Weather: Rainmaking and Reproduction in Tanzania
- 6. Nice Weather for the Time of Year: The British Obsession with the Weather
- Years
- 7. How People Name Seasons
- 8. Monet's 'London Series' and the Cultural Climate of London at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
- 9. Changing Earth and Sky: Movement, Environmental Variability, and Responses to El Nino in the Pio-Tura Region of Papua New Guinea
- 10. Meteorological Meanings: Farmers' Interpretations of Seasonal Rainfall Forecasts in Burkina Faso
- Generations
- 11. Climate Science and the Policy of Drought Mitigation in Ceara, Northeast Brazil
- 12. Climate and Culture in the North: The Interface of Archaeology, Paleoenvironmental Science, and Oral History
- 13. Testing Farmers' Perceptions of Climate Variability: A Case Study from the Sulphur Springs Valley, Arizona
- 14. Mood, Magic, and Metaphor: Allusions to Weather and Climate in the Sagas of Icelanders
- Afterword
- 15. Domesticating Nature: Commentary on the Anthropological Study of Weather and Climate Discourse
- Index
